Continental law system and Anglo-American law system are two major legal systems in the world today, covering some major countries in the world. The representatives of civil law system are German, French and China. Anglo-American legal system is of course represented by Britain and America.

There are four basic legal systems commonly used by jurists and economists, namely, Anglo-American legal system, French legal system, German legal system and Nordic legal system, among which French legal system, German legal system and Nordic legal system belong to continental legal system. Anglo-American legal system is mainly based on precedent, and the other three (namely, civil law system) are written law systems.

Legal system is a common concept in western jurisprudence. It is generally believed that all the laws of various countries that have some similarities in content and form and form a tradition or faction belong to the same legal system. Therefore, the so-called legal system in western jurisprudence is mainly a method to classify the laws of various countries according to their legal characteristics and historical traditions.

The division of legal system by western jurists is also very inconsistent, but many legal works cite five legal systems: English legal system, continental legal system, China legal system, Indian legal system and Islamic legal system. Except for the continental law system and the English law system, the other five legal systems have basically become concepts in the history of legal system.

Continental law system refers to the laws of continental European countries, which originated from Roman law and is represented by French Civil Code 1804, so continental law system is also called Roman law system or civil law system.

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